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On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote:

> 	Today, when I did a shutdown and tried to reboot the machine,
> instead of the bootstrap coming up, it just said Read error, any ideas on
> what the problem is and how I can fix it?  Thanks.

Can you be more specific, ie where exactly it fails?  Can you boot with a
boot floppy OK? How about '?' at the Boot: prompt, does that show any
files?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major